If Only We Can Guess the Name, Maybe We Can Break the Spell: Is it...Trumplestiltskin?
It's a mad whirl these days with more mad than whirl going on. This week alone offers everything from the Iran deal (the one new NRA president Ollie North did back in the day) to the Iran deal (the o...
7 Maj 201844min
ACRONYMGASM: DOTMLPF-P, JCPOA, NPT PREPCOMS, MILFS, LBJ, IRT, THE YOUTH OF AMERICA ON L-S-D
How are we supposed to concentrate on nuclear weapons dramas in the Middle East and the Koreas, new U.S. special forces deployments, Bibi Netanyahu doing his best Gallagher prop-comedy impression and ...
3 Maj 201847min
There is a Game of 3D Chess Going On--The Question is Can Any World Leaders Actually Play?
Move are afoot--everywhere. In the Koreas, North and South are posturing pre-negotiations while back in the U.S. the president is writing his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. In the Middle East, Israe...
1 Maj 201856min
A EURONERD FEAST
Not since Chevy Chase's European Vacation has an American brought so much mayhem to U.S. Trans-Atlantic Relations. Perhaps new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo can start to make amends on his first tri...
26 Apr 201850min
He's a Nixer, Not a Fixer
With John Bolton loose in the West Wing, what will happen to US foreign policy? Deep State Radio's Rosa Brooks hosts in David Rothkopf's absence, joined by regulars Kori Schake of the International In...
24 Apr 201852min
The "Stormy" Kim Illusion
When Donald Trump thinks about Kim Jong Un he sees Stormy Daniels. At least he sees what he saw that night long ago with Ms. Daniels, which is something that he wanted very very much, that he needed ...
19 Apr 201848min
Trump's Got 99 Problems But Too Much Respect for the Law Ain't One of Them...
The Syria strike was likely highly ineffective due to the fact that it was limited in impact, came without a long-term strategy or much likelihood of follow-up actions to end the use of chemical weapo...
17 Apr 201851min
A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Small Hands
Every day in Trumpassic Era seems like a million years in geological time. Sex scandals, echoes of old pee tapes, pending missile strikes in search of a strategy, waves of national security experts l...
13 Apr 201848min
